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ISBN: 0061472786
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 Worthless - don't waste your money December 25, 2009
Mike Nagavalli
13 out of 45 found this review helpful
I bought this book to read about the evidence for the ID with an open mind. This book does not read well at all...for the most part instead of sticking to scientific "evidence" and making the right connections, the author seems to go off on tangents. No matter what your opinion is regarding ID, this book is not a good read at all. Waste of my money.
 Evidence for Intelligence December 24, 2009
Tobias Alecio Mattei (BRAZIL)
18 out of 35 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent review of the clear evidence of Intelligent Design in biological science and is one more landmark against the dominant but still unproven theory of Darwinism.
My sincere recommendations.
Dr. Tobias Mattei
Neurosurgery - Instituto de Neurologia de Curitiba - BRAZIL
Solid Agruments, Excellent Questions Raised December 24, 2009
Patrick Achey (Washington, US)
22 out of 38 found this review helpful
Check this book out for yourself; it deserves careful reading and consideration. Meyer is dealing with really heavy and important stuff here, but this book is not arcane or obscure. Just about any reasonably educated and informed person can follow Meyer's argument. It is clear and well laid out. It also does not make assumptions in advance about how things have to be. It looks very closely at the evidence, and while not everybody will agree with his conclusion, they do need to consider the case that Meyer has made.
Long ago, the authorities of the past, such as Aristotle, had great influence on how people saw the natural world, and also on their imaginations. Since the Middle Ages, there have been repeated revolutions in our understandings of what our world is and how it works. These were based on evidence. In the case of most of the physical sciences, this was from repeatable experiments. For the historical sciences, the development of scientific understanding was based both on the evidence and on logical inference. An example of this would be the acceptance of plate tectonics in geology.
We are now finding that there is an enormous amount of information in DNA and in cells. The concept of information as being an important part of the universe is relatively new, and Meyer lays out this issue very well. Interactions of matter and energy are probably sufficient to account for the formation of stars in our galaxy, but Meyer shows that internal activities of a cell absolutely require information and its processing to function properly.
This book is the coup de grace to Natualism and Neo-Darwinism December 24, 2009
Michael E. Mcallister
13 out of 30 found this review helpful
The folks who left low-star ratings for this book, as you'll notice, offered ad hominen attacks but NO arguments.
I'm supposing that's because they have no arguments. They seem to have a preconceived mind-set that is hostile to any non-materialistic explanation for the existence of digitally encoded functionally specified information--even when that explanation is the best explanation.
If you disagree with Meyer's analysis then you should present your arguments and show everyone where he went astray instead of making ad hominen rants which come across as very anti-intellectual
The truth is that Meyer thoroughly and painstakingly obliterates the hypothesis put forward by Naturalist's and Neo-Darwinist's that digitally encoded and functionally specified information within the cell can arise by blind, directionless, unintentional chance, physical necessity, or any combination thereof. I can see how this might be disturbing if you have ruled out non-materialistic explanations from the get go
This book is annother GIANT nail in the coffin to Naturalistic explanations of life. Meyer lays out and rigorously defends the syllogism:
1. Digitally encoded specified information arises only from intelligence soources
2. The biological cell contains digitally coded functionally specified information
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Therefore, the information within the cell has as its best explanation an intelligent source
There is no hand waving in this book. He critically examines all alternatives and uses the scientific method of abductive reasoning to arrive at the best and only plausible explanation which is that the digitally encoded functionally specified information found in the cell has only one known source---intelligence
The argument is that we know intelligent agents can and do produce complex digitally encoded functionally specified sequences, moreover, materialistic theories have proven inadequate for explaining the origin of such information, therefore, the presence of the digitally encoded information inside the cell points to intelligence as the best explanation
I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is willing to go wherever the data leads. The chapters dedicated to the elimination of chance as a possible explanation for the existence of even a single protein are filled with information which will blow your mind
Also, the Appendix is lengthy and filled with very exciting new discoveries which show that genes are not what we thought they were and that DNA is not destiny. These new discoveries create even further insurmountably problems to Neo-Darwinism.
Brings biological science out of the 'Dawk' Ages into the 21st Century December 24, 2009
Snardiff
14 out of 33 found this review helpful
When Darwin formulated his theory, he was ignorant of modern advances in our knowledge of biology, such as DNA, that directly impinge upon the feasibility of his theory in accounting for life. The modern day fundamentalist atheists want to keep us in the 19th century, as intellectual slaves to an outdated theory conceived in ignorance, a kind of 19th century equivalent to the geocentric model of cosmology.
But this book will set you free of their dogmas, using information theory that could only be devised in the age of computers and combining it with the most recent discoveries in genetics to demonstrate that DNA is information, comparable to digital data that computers deal with. Hence it is purposeful and comes from an intelligence. It also refutes common fallacies about the scientific method propounded by evolutionary fundamentalists, showing that the best scientific theory is the one that goes where the evidence leads, not one that is bound to be a naturalistic explanation, no matter what the evidence.
All in all, an important contribution to the new and fertile field of ID.
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